Django (the rooster) Unchained
June 30th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Posted in Blog, farming
Watching my young pullets wander around outside their new coop, it occurred to me they were awfully vulnerable to attack from the sky. Any minute, a hawk could swoop down and carry one away. What we needed, I figured, was someone with eyes on the sky–a rooster, perhaps, to sound a warning should an attack occur.
A quick search on Craigslist turned up an ad for a free rooster in nearby Greenwich. There, I found Skip, a man with quite a menagerie on his little lot–cows, horses, sheep, chickens. The rooster he wanted to unload was quite a handsome fellow–tall, white with black flecks and stripes. Skip called him Honkey, “because he’s white.” I re-named him Django, because he’s obviously such a cool and capable dude.
Django did his best not to be caught. We chased him from one paddock to another. He always managed to slip through the wire fence and elude us. Skip, it turns out, had a bad knee. He lumbered along, carrying a wire hook on the end of a broom handle, designed to snag chickens by the leg. He could never get close enough to Django to use it.
I left empty handed, hoping that Skip’s girlfriend–who was scheduled to return later than evening–would have better luck with the rooster. Sure enough, the phone rang after dinner. They had captured Django. I got in the car once more with a dog carrier for the eight mile drive to Greenwich. We put Django in the carrier and I delivered him to his new home, stowing him in the goat shed overnight.
In the morning, after releasing our girls from the coop, I brought Django in his little crate to introduce him to his new flock of Rhode Island Reds. In the film above, you can see what happened when we opened the cage door.
Oh, Django was not happy. Not happy at all. Now we wonder: Will Django ever return?
Hi Ed: your u-tube link says its a private video
Thanks, Linda. I think this is fixed now